phishing increases

[Dave]

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Hi,
    Thanks, i am using clamav as an av scanner along with bitdefender and 
f-prot.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Stone" <cstone at AXINT.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: phishing increases


> On Thursday 08 December 2005 11:31 pm, Dave wrote:
>> Hello,
>>     I'm seeing an increase in phishing atempts. I'm running MS-4.46.2 on 
>> a
>> freebsd6 box and here's my phishing-relevant mailscanner.conf settings:
>>
>> Find Phishing Fraud = yes
>> Also Find Numeric Phishing = yes
>> Highlight Phishing Fraud = yes
>> Phishing Safe Sites File = %etc-dir%/phishing.safe.sites.conf
>> Phishing Modify Subject = yes
>> Phishing Subject Text = {Fraud?}
>>
>> In the safe sites file i haven't modified anything, is there more i can 
>> do?
>> Particularly i'm seeing items from ebay, a bank which i don't do business
>> with, and emails marked as postmaster undeliverable.
>
> If you are not using ClamAV, you should add it to the mix - it picks up 
> most
> of the phishing scams I see on my servers.
>
>
> Chris
>
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